Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
>I am looking at the logs of our fax servers, which run a card by
>Eicon. The logfile has information like call direction, which I
>would want to track as in, out and total, call time (start of call),
>call duration and port number plus other information which for
>tracking purpose I don't care about.
>>I am thinking about running a script on this to feed into RRD maybe,
>like once an hour to check the previous hour. But how would you
>organize this in RRD?
RRD will only track rates, so you cannot use it to track individual
calls or their start times. You could track number of calls, and
total durations.
For logging number of calls, there are two ways of doing it. One is
to total the calls per unit of time in your scripts, and pass this in
as a data type absolute. The other would be to do an update for each
call and feed in the value 1 for each call made/received - again data
type absolute and assuming you don't ever have two calls on the same
second.
Similarly, for call durations, you can either add them up for each
time period and do an update with that total, or do an update for
each call.
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